Maarten, you have to visit Cappuccino Restaurant. If you want to enjoy the best fresh grilled lobster in St. Normally opens 24/7 but currently due to pandemic they are opening from 7:00a.m-11:00p.m Happy Hour: 3:00pm – 8:00pm ALL COCKTAILS AND BEERS 50% OFFĭaily Breakfast and Lunch Specials, Soup of the Day, Burgers, Sandwiches, Steaks and Seafood with great sides and salads. To alleviate the growling stomachs of late afternoon students and faculty, El Camino and Pacific Dining should make efforts to extend dining hours.Įditorials are unsigned and are written and voted upon by the editorial board.Cappuccino Restaurant- Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten While the details and logistics may differ here at El Camino, there is a way to do it. Vice President of Administrative Services Abdul Nassar at Compton Community told The Union he wants to expand hours from 7:30 a.m to 7:30 p.m when it becomes feasible. While the restaurants are open roughly the same hours in the day, the operational hours at Compton allow afternoon students and staff to take advantage of hot meals while still giving adequate time for morning students. They have one on-campus dining option that a third-party vendor also runs, and their operating hours are from 10:30 a.m. Neighboring Compton Community College is significantly smaller than El Camino in terms of campus and enrollment size. However, The Union could not get an interview after Mahone refused to comply with its interview policy. The Union staff attempted to speak with Pacific Dining representative Rick Mahone to clarify why dining shuts down at 2 p.m. Vendors and school officials should work together to find solutions rather than closing early. While enrollments are not a direct representation of student count due to duplication, that is still a sizable number of students, not to mention staff and faculty, who simply don’t get the availability of on-campus nutrition. That 32% accounts for 6,120 current enrollments.

That means 32% of available in-person classes begin after on-campus restaurants have closed their doors.

Of those 1,115 on-campus classes, 356 starts at or after 2 p.m. One might argue that, admittedly, more students are on campus in the mornings and early afternoons.Īccording to the El Camino College Office of Institutional Research and Planning, the fall 2022 semester has 1,115 in-person courses (or classes) available. The El Camino College campus is still acclimating to the return of in-person classes after two years of strictly virtual learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so limited operational hours are understandable in this transition phase.īut with in-person classes comes hungry people.Īround campus, many students, faculty and staff have experienced the frustration of trying to catch a quick bite to eat in between classes only to realize on-campus dining is closed. The two locations operated by third-party vendor Pacific Dining are not open beyond 2 p.mĮl Cappuccino is open from 7:30 a.m to 2 p.m Monday – Thursday and from 7:30 a.m. It was after 2 p.m., and the doors were locked.Įl Camino College has two main on-campus dining options, El Cappuccino located by the bookstore, and Cafe El Camino near the Humanities Building. There was only one problem: Munoz attended afternoon classes. He stopped by the El Cappuccino restaurant before doing some homework on campus. Student Carlos Munoz was feeling hungry on Thursday, Sept.